Yunnan Provincial Museum

Yunnan Provincial Museum Travel Guide

Brief Introduction
The Yunnan Provincial Museum is a regional museum, containing around 50,000 objects in its collections. Among these, historical objects account for around 30,000 items of which there are 7,000 bronzes, revolutionary items (7,200), ethnic minorities cultural objects (7,000), handicrafts (4,000).

Features
The Museum represents the local minority people in particular, and features arts from the Dali Kingdom as well as other periods of Yunnan history. The Yunnan Historical Objects Exhibition has strong regional characteristics, elements that distinguish the local cultures from the Central Plains Han-Chinese culture.
Using a diversity of excavated objects, the exhibition displays the face of ancient Yunnan. Many of the objects in this exhibition have important scientific and artistic value, and provide material evidence of mankind´s social development.